Produced by The Internet Library of Early Journals; Jon Ingram, Keith Edkins and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. {473} NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. * * * * * "When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. * * * * * No. 59.] SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14. 1850. [Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d. * * * * * CONTENTS. NOTES:-- Page The First Paper-mill in England, by Dr. E.F. Rimbault 473 Specimens of Foreign English 474 Folk Lore:--May-dew--Piskies--The Dun Cow-- Lady Godiva--"Can du plera meleor cera" 474 Minor Notes--Circulation of the Blood--Origin of the Word "Culprit"--Collar of SS.--The Singing of Swans--Sir Thomas Herbert's Memoirs--Portraits of Stevens and Cotton and Bunyan--Sonnet: Attempting to prove that Black is White--Nicholas Bretons Fantasticks 475 QUERIES:-- The Wise Men of Gotham 476 Herstmonceux Castle 477 Minor Queries:--Yorkshire Ballads--Ringing a Hand-bell before a Corpse--Church of St. Savior, Canterbury-- Mock Beggar's Hall--Beatrix Lady Talbot-- English Prize Essays--Rev. Joseph Blanco White-- History of the Inquisition--Lady Deloraine--Speke Family--Pope's Villa--Armorial Bearings--Passage From Tennyson--Meaning of "Sauenap"--Hoods worn by Doctors of the University of Cambridge-- Euclid and Aristotle--Ventriloquism--Fanningus, the King's Whisperer--Frances Lady Norton-- Westminster Wedding--Stone's Diary--Dr. King's poem of "The Toast"--"Anima Magis" etc.--The Adventures of Peter Wilkins--Translations of the Talmud--Torn by Horses--The Marks *, [obelus], &c. --Blackguard 478 REPLIES:-- Church History Society, by S.R. Maitland 480 Defender of the Faith, by W.S. Gibson 481 Meaning of Jezebel 482 Socinian Boast, by J.R. Beard 483 Replies to Minor Queries:--The Koenig stuhl at Rheuze --Mrs. Tempest--Calendar of Sundays in Greek and Romish Churches--The Conquest--Thruscross-- Osnaburgh Bishopric--Nicholas Ferrar--Butcher's Blue Dress--Chaucer's Portrait by Occleve--Lady Jane of Westmoreland--Gray and Dodsley 484